Practical problems of applying performance-based structural fire engineering in building design

The Eurocodes are a comprehensive set of standards for structural design. They provide a far more detailed guidance as regards the behaviour of structures under fire conditions, than was previously provided in the National Standards of the individual member states, except maybe those with long tradition in applying performance-based fire safety solutions such as the UK. However – as was discussed in the paper – a designer undertaking fire engineering analysis with the scope of establishing thermal actions on structural elements may find that the Eurocodes do not yet provide a complete guidance on the various aspects of analysis which needs to be carried out (.)

11th SFPE Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods, Warszawa, 2016

Autorzy: Piotr Smardz